Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Platyceratidae
Synonym: Ptychospira Perner 1903 [replaced name]
Full reference: J. Perner. 1907. Gastéropodes, Tome 2: Pleurotomaridae et Murchisonidae 1-380
Parent taxon: Platyceratidae according to J. B. Knight et al. 1960
See also Perner 1907 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Barynema, Basiplanus, Brokenriveria, Cancellator, Cancelloplatyceras, Compsonema, Crossoceras, Cyclonema, Devononema, Dyeria, Euthyrhachis, Globulonema, Himantonia, Lotzia, Naticellina, Naticonema, Naticonoda, Natirhenia, Nonorios, Obscuropsis, Paffrathia, Palaeocapulus, Platyceras, Platyostoma, Platyschisma, Ploconema, Praenatica, Pseudoplatyceras, Pseudorthonychiinae, Radvanospira, Rhabdocantha, Spinyplatyceras, Spiranodus, Spironemella, Strophostylus, Strotostoma, Stuckenbergispira, Tachloconcha
Subtaxa: Ptychospirina mima Ptychospirina senaria Ptychospirina varians
Type: Ptychospira senaria
Ecology: passively mobile epifaunal coprophage
Distribution:
• Carboniferous of Australia (1 collection)
• Devonian of Canada (1: Manitoba), Czechia (1), United States (1: Ohio)
• Silurian of China (1), Czechia (1)
Total: 6 collections each including a single occurrence
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